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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 07:06:44 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem Adding Serial Port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960801070548.2217A-100000@synwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731210025.264S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Mike wrote:
> 
> > I just bought an SIIG i/o card with dual 16550 serial ports and a parallel
> > port.  I already have com1 and com2 with base addresses 3f8 and 2f8
> > and IRQ's 4 and 3 respectively.  I enabled ONLY com3 on the new card base
> > address 3e8 and IRQ 5 and plugged it in.  No matter what I try, FreeBSD
> > will not see the new card.  I plugged the same card into another box with
> > Win95 on it and it saw the additional serial port right away.  I did
> > recompile my kernel to add support for sio2 before this episode even
> > started.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Did you reset the settings for sio2 with -c?  
> 
> Did you make sure NOTHING else is using irq 5?  Not even unsupported
> devices?
> 

Yes, I did all of the above.  My NIC was using IRQ5 for the longest time
and I just moved it to IRQ10 last night.  Thanks

Mike

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